Before Photoshop...

[YMS]

... if there ever was such a time!


This is from a legitimate art site, so I'm assuming it's true :)

(I've never seen it before, so apologies if it's old news.)

Librarian (http://www.wga.hu/art/a/arcimbol/libraria.jpg)

ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe
The Librarian
c. 1566
Oil on canvas, 97 x 71 cm
Skoklosters Slott, Bålsta (Stockholm)

[ldg40]

I'd call this surrealism (?). I just have to check out the link to the rest!

Ahh...imagine life before PS, LOL! Just imagine how we labored away with pen & ink (or whatever one's vice) before!

Great find YMS & thank you so for sharing! :)

[123456789]

Magritte and Escher were choppers before PS.
But typography before computers REALLY blows my mind.

[burndog]

whoa! nice find. I bet people in those days thought the artist was a total looney tune. I really like that a lot, but if I had to nitpic, I would only give him a 9 as he has messed up slightly on his shadow work. He'd have a tough time here in the advanced contests:)

[Siouxie]

*G* you are great bernie :)
and i really love this picture, reminds me of the vegetable and flower faces i once posted by an old artist